The Casma Valley is a coastal valley situated about 400 km north of Lima, Peru, and lying between the towns of Chimbote and Huarmey. It is notable for its archaelogical sites related to the Pre-Columbian Chavín culture, such as stone-faced pyramids at Moxeco and Palka and one of the oldest known sites in Peru (approx.1600 BC), that of a temple at Sechín. The valley contains the once important and small town of Casma, which had to be rebult after being destroyed by an earthquake on May 31 1970.

Geography of Peru